Airport age: Architecture and modernity in America.

Title: Airport age: Architecture and modernity in America.
Identifier: AAI3283159
identifier: 3283159
Creator: Eggebeen, Janna.
Contributor: Adviser: Rosemarie Haag Bletter
Date: 2007
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Art History | Architecture
Abstract: This study is a chronological and thematic examination of the architecture and design of the American airport over a seventy-year period, from their invention in the 1920s to the latest design developments of the 1990s. The airport is a new and quintessentially twentieth-century building type. Composed principally of airfield, control tower, hangars, terminal(s), administration and service buildings, as well as runways and access roads, it is a totally designed and extraordinarily complex architectural space. It is also a special social environment, and the airport functions as a modern heterotopia of both freedom and control. Flight and its land-based expression of the airport, particularly the passenger terminal, are integral to modern life, and, as this dissertation discusses, played an important role in the constitution of modernity.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.